Courtney Barnett returns with new single Stay In Your Lane

Live4ever 16 October, 2025

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Courtney Barnett by Pooneh Ghana

Courtney Barnett has been road-testing new material recently.

Courtney Barnett has made her return with the release of a brand new single entitled Stay In Your Lane, out with an official video directed by Alex Ross Perry.

The track follows Barnett’s 2023 instrumental album End Of The Day, while the long wait for a conventional studio record goes back even longer to 2021 and ‘Things Take Time, Take Time’.

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“The dusky Sunfair Sundown, complete with calming keys, also offers insight into the mindset of the individual (‘you’ve got a blank slate to renovate’) while, in contrast, the bluesy Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To (if nothing else, great advice) is catchy in the extreme and very nearly pop,” Live4ever’s review reads.

“The straightforward optimism of the snappy Take It Day By Day, midway through the album, demonstrates the progress made. At less than two minutes, the song is strangled at birth and no-one would begrudge another minute or two.”

The woozily sad Here’s The Thing has a persistent bass line and melody structure (along with a gentle snare) which nearly evokes The Velvet Underground & Nico, were it not for the difference in vocal delivery, which is fast becoming both Barnett’s trademark and Achilles’ Heel.

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